C.J. Wilson (baseball)

Angels left-hander C.J. Wilson stood in the clubhouse Saturday, held up his left arm and offered a demonstration. He bent his arm, and it didn't bend much. Then he straightened his arm, and it didn't straighten much. "That's my elbow," he said. "This is bent. That's straight. That's all I got. So there's nothing much I can really do. I don't have a good knuckleball." Wilson had reached the point, he said, where he could no longer pitch this season. After an MRI exam Friday showed more bone spurs in his elbow, Wilson said he'll likely have surgery and sit out the rest of the season. The team said the diagnosis was "left...

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